This week I'm going to review the J-Pop song "Butterfly", edited by someone or other to include a Pokemon-themed track.
Butterfly (Pikachu Mix): This is brilliant. I want to hug whomever came up with this. It's my conclusion that every song should be modified to include a track of Pikachu going 'pikapi pikapi pika*CHU*'. The national anthem. Eminem. Even country western. Think about it.
| "My dog done left me yesterday ... | "Pika pika pika pika |
| "And the Alpo's going gray | "Pika pika pikaCHU |
| "Someone's got to eat it | "Pika pika pika pika |
| "And the cats say, 'It's all you.' | "Pika pika pikaCHU |
| "'It's all you.' MRAO ..." | "CHU" |
You can't tell me that wouldn't rule from orbit.
Congratulations to Tim Gray on comment 600!
Kero-chan check! on comment 600:
Working up to The Monster, by the sound of it.
Note the elegant way in which I set off quoted comments in italics and blockquote format. But what you might not know: I *also* have to lower the font size two points! If I didn't, all the song quotes and comments and such would look TOO BIG. Oh, plus, it looks like he's not wrong!
That's all for now! See you in another hundred comments!
I went ahead and finished IV/IV (also issue 100!) of Hitherby a bit early. And yay! I'm extremely happy with it. I know that my tastes, oddly, don't quite match those of my readership---reader favorites aren't reliably my favorites or vice versa. But that's okay. I get to be smug about things I like anyway. :)
Now I have to wait a whole day to post it! Sniffle.
There's a forum at maps.hitherby.com. Feel free to swing by!
So where do we send gifts? I desperately want to send you books to hear your thoughts on them.
-- Shawn
Good question!
I never like giving out my address. I've never actually dealt with stalkers, but there have been some people who were kind of close. And they're always surprising! More importantly, there are some family members who I don't want to have my address.
So!
Feel free to post recommendations here for things that should go on my Amazon wishlist. (Either because you want to send them to me or because you think *someone* ought to.) Once I do so, they can be sent to me via Amazon! There's a link off of 'Who is Rebecca?'
If something absolutely *has* to be a surprise, or is not available via Amazon, we can talk in email.
There will be opportunities to reward me commercially eventually, so don't feel like you have to send presents just 'cause you like Hitherby. But, then, I like presents, so!
No new Hitherby-related gifts this week! (Although my friends at Eos Press did send me a birthday present.) So instead I am going to review fish.
Oven-baked frozen cod fillet: Mm, fish! Contribution to my thought processes: by providing my body with much-needed protein, carbohydrates, and vitamins, it keeps my thought processes from stopping due to starvation. In addition, the more I reflect upon fish, the more I realize that the world is an unfinished product. Let's face it: whomever put together this crazy world did a really good job with fish, but it's only partway there. Someone still has to *catch* the fish, and *clean* the fish, and *bread* the fish, and *bake* the fish. The fish is only partway along its evolution. It's at the beginning. It's a rough idea. A concept sketch, as it were. In a more polished universe, baked breaded cod fillets would just swim around in the air, and when you wanted fish, you'd say, "Fish!" and it would swim up to your plate.
Second gifts received in honor of Hitherby Dragons, from Chrysoula:
Dealing with Dragons: a nice, light-hearted romp. Helped a little with current stresses. Contribution to my thought processes: cleanly people do not melt in soapy water. This is very logical but I had not explicitly realized it before. Oddly, I also do not melt in soapy water, despite the fact that I am not very neat. Perhaps spiritual cleanliness suffices.
Searching for Dragons: equally fun. Contribution to my thought processes: the proper ending for a character changes from story to story. Because Dealing with Dragons was much on my mind, the ending surprised me; and, had it ended Dealing with Dragons, it would have been profoundly disappointing. However, after a few moments of thought, I realized that it wasn't disappointing at all as the ending for *this* story, but, rather, cool. :)
Thanks!
Hitherby Dragons is updated Monday through Friday. I live in Seattle, Pacific time, and put each update up sometime between 5pm the previous day and 9am the day it comes out.
Saturday is a bonus update: there is always something on Saturday, and it is part of the official continuity, and it is often a perfectly good or even superior entry. However, since this is a bonus update, I will sometimes just show you some old poetry or a moldy sock.
Hitherby Dragons does not update on Sunday. In addition, there is one skipped update a month, sometime around the 3rd. This is explicitly so I don't have to write anything on my birthday (see below), even though that's technically just one day a year. :)
The first post of each month is the Letters Column for the previous month.
The end of the next 4-part series should also be entry 100 of Hitherby Dragons. (Strictly speaking, 106, but I'll probably be moving 6 miscellaneous entries that don't really count over here, including 5 posted early on and the one I plan to post announcing the existence of Merin Catalog.)
The 500th comment was made by Beth, on March 9, at 9:26am.
Congratulations, Beth! Congratulations, me!
I have no idea how old I am, though. :)